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OKLAHOMA CITY (August 26, 2015) --TSET, the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, is partnering with Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences and OSU Medical Authority to support the launch of medical residency programs to place doctors in rural and medically underserved portions of the state with a new grant that began this summer.

The TSET Board of Directors has awarded a six-year, $3.8 million grant to Oklahoma State University Medical Authority to address the critical shortage of physicians in Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY (August 24, 2015) - TSET had the opportunity to present at three national conferences in Atlanta, GA this month. At the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC), tobacco control and prevention leaders across Oklahoma had the opportunity to showcase efforts in the state to prevent and reduce tobacco use. Tracey Strader, executive director of TSET and NAQC board of director chair, facilitated a discussion of the board at the closing plenary on Creating a Vision for the Future of Quitlines.

OKLAHOMA CITY (August 19, 2015) – The Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Board of Investors has preliminarily certified $42.8 million in earnings for use in the coming year to fund prevention and reduction of tobacco use and other health issues, State Treasurer Ken Miller announced today.

Oklahoma City (Aug. 18, 2015) -- Teacher pay in Oklahoma is a critical issue. No one disputes that. Oklahoma’s poor health status and the burden this places on our schools, businesses, families, and our economy are also critically important. Ultimately we can't find ourselves pitting these critical issues against each other.

Half of Oklahoma adults are not eating fruit daily, and about a quarter of Oklahomans don’t eat a single vegetable daily. Local community gardens are one way that community groups are hoping to bring more options to the diet of local residents.

Through incentive and community-based grants, TSET is partnering to help create community gardens. Guthrie, Okmulgee and Muskogee are just a few of the places that offer community gardens.